Bed-spring fabric.



J. HOEY.

BED SPRING FABRIC.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. so, 1913.

1,094,787. I Patented Ap1128,1914.

WITNESSES: INVENTOR T @FFTQE.

JOHN HOEY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

IBED-SPRING FABRIC.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN Honx, a citizen of the United States, residingin the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Bed-Spring Fabrics, of which thefollowin is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in bed spring fabrics.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple, cheaplymanufactured, durable bed spring fabric which is particularly adaptedfor use in folding couches or the like, i. 6., a spring which may befolded on itself without injuring the fabric or springs in any way.

The invention consists of the parts and the construction and combinationof parts as hereinafter more fully described and claimed, havingreference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan viewof a folding couch frame, partly broken away, showing the bed spring inthe same. Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective View of the links formingthe bed spring, showing their connections.

Referring to the drawings: 2 and 3 indieate the separate frame sectionsof a folding couch or like structure, hinged together, as at i, so thatone section may fold on top of the other, and A indicates in general thebed spring fabric which I have particularly constructed for suchcouches. The bed spring is here shown as consisting of a plurality ofrows 5 of interlocked U-shaped links, which are attached to the head andfoot rails of the bed, as indicated at 6 and 7, by helical springs 8 and9. Each link comprising the fabric is constructed of a single piece ofwire bent into an approximately U-shaped form, as shown in Fig. 2; andthe outer ends of each link are then turned to form the eyes 10, whilethe inner connecting end is slightly bent inwardly, as indicated at 11.

A pair of recesses or seats 12 is thus formed at the end of each link,which not only forms an ideal connection for the eyes of the nextconnected link, but also separates these uniformly apart throughout thechain Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 30 1913.

Patented Apr. 28, 1914.

Serial No. 792,585.

of connected links. The eyes connecting one link with another are madesufficiently large to permit the insertion of the transverse pivot rods18 which extend across the full width of the bed spring, being clenchedor having formed at their outer ends eyelets let and 15 to prevent theirendwise removal.

From the foregoing description it can be seen that the bed spring fabricconsists of rows of endwise connected U-shaped links which areyieldingly secured to the head and foot rails of the couch through themedium of the helical springs 8 and 9, and that transverse connection issecured by the rods 13. This construction permits the bed spring to befolded upon itself at any point, as many times as it is found necessary,for the simple reason that the transverse rods form pivots about whicheach line of links may spring; and an exceedingly durable and flexiblestructure is thus secured, which may be folded upon itself at any point.

\Vhile the bed spring structure here shown has been described as beingparticularly adapted for folding couches and the like, I also wish itunderstood that it is equally useful for rigid frame structures.Furthermore, the provision of the eyes 14 and 15 on the ends of thetransverse rods 13 also makes it possible to insert helical springsbetween the side rails of the bed and the bed spring where this is founddesirable.

I wish it understood that various changes in form, proportions and minordetails of construction may be resorted to within the scope of theappended claim, and that I do not wish to limit myself to the specificform or design here shown.

Having thus described my invention what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is:

A bed spring fabric composed of rows of connected links. said linksbeing U-shaped, the free ends of the legs of which links are bent toform eyes, the connecting ends of the links being centrally inwardlybowed to form a pair of spaced seats which latter receive the eyes ofthe next adjacent links, independent transverse rods passed through theeyes of said rows of links and disposed meeyiev between the connectingends of the links and In testimony whereof I have hereunto set the innerends of the eyes that are eonmy hand in the presence of two subscribingnested to said last-named links and eyes Witnesses.

formed on the ends of said transverse rods JOHN HOEY. to limit theoutward movement of the outermost rows of links by engagement with theeyes of said outermost rows of links.

FJitnesses:

M. A. GUTTEN W. W, HEALEY.

Copies ef this patezit may "be obtained for five cents each, byaddressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, 1). G.

